Wendy Wasserstein Quotes
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
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In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.
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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.
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To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.
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If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.
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I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
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I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long as I was working constantly, that was fine, because, although I don't have any children, I do relate better to them than adults.
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I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.
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This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.
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But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.
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I am a huge proponent of having a water filter of some kind in your home.
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I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.
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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
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Texans know how to make people feel welcome.
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Prosperous farmers make for a prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble.
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Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.
